About this Event
AI governance is often framed as a top-down problem: write better rules, infer better preferences, and train better models. This talk offers a different starting point. Drawing on Taiwan’s experience with digital democracy, Audrey Tang shows how Civic AI can strengthen collective self-government when it is bounded by local accountability and community needs. Audrey introduces the 6-Pack of Care — six design principles for Civic AI: attentiveness, responsibility, competence, responsiveness, solidarity, and symbiosis. Rather than treating ethics as a static checklist, this approach asks whether a system operates at the community scale, can be corrected quickly, and increases a community’s capacity to cooperate. The unit of deployment is the “Kami” — a bounded local steward, not a universal governor. Using examples from Taiwan’s Alignment Assembly on deepfake scam advertisements, bridging algorithms that turn outrage into overlap, and federated safety infrastructure, the talk demonstrates what governance looks like when communities can inspect, contest, and shut down the systems that serve them. The breakthrough is not smarter chatbots; it is stronger self-government.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, 27 Winchester Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
